House Minority Whip Steve Scalise
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Scalise told ABC ‘This Week’ host Jonathan Karl that while on a visit to Florida, he ‘ended up’ at the former president’s Palm Beach resort to raise money when asked if he spoke to Trump about taking responsibility for a crowd of his supporters who flooded the Capitol during The official congressional college count confirms President Biden
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“I was in Florida raising money in some parts of Florida, ended up with Mar-a-Lago and the president reached out and we visited,” said Scalise. “I hadn’t seen him since he left the White House and it was actually good to catch up with him. I found he was much more relaxed than his four years in the White House. ”
“It was more of a conversation about how he is now and what he plans to do and how his family is doing,” said Scalise.
Karl later referred to comments made by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
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Scalise replied that there was “a lot of debt to go around.”
“At the end of the day, the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6, it was a shame and they should be held accountable,” said Scalise.
“That’s clear,” replied Karl. “I ask about Donald Trump’s role in this.”
Scalise then shifted to the subject of Trump’s second impeachment trial, where defense lawyers showed a mashup video of Democrats using the word ‘fight’ in political speeches in relation to Trump’s ‘fight like hell’ used during a speech just before rioters stormed the Capitol.
“Everything they’ve done since that day [he] walked into the office to try to rip him off, ”Scalise said.
“So you say he has no responsibility?” Karl asked.
“Look, President Trump has denounced what happened and I think everyone should have been unequivocal in their charges against what happened not only on January 6 but during the summer,” Scalise said in reference to protests last year. years turned violent after multiple deaths of Black Americans at the hands of the police.
“Let’s be across the board and say that anyone who resorts to violence to settle political disputes has no place for that in America and it should be unequivocally disputed,” Scalise said.